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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. I hear what people are saying here, and I have had these conversations with myself. However, I've also had two kinds of nannies when it comes to supplies and things around the house: those that think that everything is up for grabs, and figure it can be replaced (food, art supplies, etc), and those who try to think about cost and reusing items.

I was MUCH happier with the nanny I could trust to spend $30 for lunch with the three kids and not $60, who would watch them using the stickers and glitter glue and paper, and not just let them use it all. I was annoyed with the nanny who had them leave all their playdough creations out to dry, rather than putting the playdough away, the one who regularly used an entire thing of glitter glue and construction paper in one day (a lot was thrown away), and the one who seemed to think the kitchen was up for grabs for her lunch, DCs' lunches, projects, whatever, and regularly left dishes to be washed.

With the one who actually showed concern for my money and my stuff, I was able to say, "Please, do what you want," and know that over four years of working together, the wasted money and destroyed household areas would be kept to a reasonable minimum. With the other two, I was constantly wondering what I was going to come home to, and what I might need to say something about that I hadn't considered.

I would try a reset conversation about asking before using anything not designated for the child, and then see what happens.

But, I commiserate, OP![/quote]

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